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Brisketexan

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  1. Ain't no "appears" about it. He's scared of Paxton, and rightly so. Paxton is the most powerful statewide official Texas has seen since Pa Ferguson.
  2. Bingo. Surly in 2033: "Holy shit....this fucking guy actually makes us miss the relative intelligence and common-sense of RFK."
  3. Oh my god, you're ADORABLE. Paxton's venality, criminality, dishonesty, and corruption are POSITIVES to the Texas voter pool. When are you going to accept the truth that Texan voters are really awful people who actually like really awful things?
  4. "Grandpa, how'd you make all your money?" "Consumer products."
  5. That we've ended up in a "debate" that steadfastly refuses to end up on the common-sense conclusion of "eat mostly whole, minimally processed foods, and in moderation" is maddening. An occasional small serving of fries consisting of sliced potatoes cooked in beef fat versus 2 giant servings of fries (sometimes processed and treated with various substances) a week cooked in transfat.....it's hitting us over the head with the obvious "one of these things is better for you." Maybe ditch the smokes, though.
  6. You are incorrect. Enron was 10X more moral an ethical than what's being done to Texas, because now, it is with the full complicity and assistance of both the state and federal government. We're getting gangraped.....while the governor and president are holding us down.
  7. What I think should be a death penalty offense is spoofing numbers to look like it comes from a legit (and maybe important) source. E.g., this morning, I got a call that showed it was coming from S. Austin Medical Center. I don't know if one of my doctors is now affiliated with them (seriously, shit like that changes monthly), or someone I know is being treated there, so I answer.....it's some scam offering two free hotel nights if I listen to some sales pitch or some shit. My other joy is that 1) I am the administrator of my father's estate, which includes two houses, and 2) I live in a part of town that was hammered by the windstorm a couple of months ago, so I get relentless calls 1) asking if I'm selling house A or B, and 2) we're offering free roof inspections in your area. I actually do answer more of these than I otherwise should, because I have a crapload of client contacts who aren't already loaded in my phone, and I need to be responsive as hell when they call. But goddamn, it's absurd. The "do not call" list is an absolute fucking joke. Shit, I'm pretty sure they use it as a "call these numbers" list.
  8. What is important is not so much that Texans will be paying more for power. What's important is TO WHOM they will be paying more for power. And that will be fossil fuel business cronies and campaign donors of our governor and president. For the 100th time as a reminder, the Texas electric market is not designed to deliver electricity to users. It is designed to direct dollars from individuals and businesses into very specific pockets; the sale of electric energy is just a means to that end.
  9. Oh yeah, but keep going. They're going to flood the zone with 100 different tactics. People and the law can't stop them all. That's the plan. How do we know? They have fucking SAID SO.
  10. Just remember, none of them -- not a single one -- is hiding or denying who they really are and what they really believe. If MAGA decides "you're an illegal" (and note that "Border Czar" Tom Homan has openly stated that a basis for doing so is your (brown) physical appearance), then....you don't get due process. That's it. That's the sole basis of determining whether you are entitled to a core constitutional right: 1) if you LOOK "illegall-ish," then 2) they will deem you to be an illegal, and 3) you thus get no due process. That's it. That's where we are. These people aren't just unamerican, they are ANTI-American, and enemies of the Constitutional Republic. They are the most dangerous threat this country has ever faced, because they are a threat from within.
  11. Dude....RFK simultaneously believes that Lyme disease is fake, and that it's also a US-developed bioweapon. Here's his approach to public health, in his own words: “I do not believe that infectious disease is an enormous threat to human health,” Kennedy said at an online campaign event in June 2023. “We can go down a whole list of diseases, and there is good evidence that even the Spanish flu came from vaccine research.”
  12. chili is serious bidness. Some things transcend the moment.
  13. The negatives for Houston are known: climate, traffic, lack of any great aesthetic plus. The positives are often underrated, though: the diversity (long-standing, not just recent - remember, it's a port city); the food (see first point); the hustle (the culture of Houston is that it doesn't give a shit about much of anything, other than whether you've got hustle and want to make some money). It's a city of opportunity. An unattractive, hot, humid city of opportunity. And tasty grub.
  14. Have you considered the possibility that you might be an America-hating wussy communist, whose weakness is harming our cultural strength and purity? Or....maybe we're all just getting older, and can't handle all the shit that never even used to phase us. Goddammit.
  15. Guess we better hope no students ever quote Shakespeare's Henry VI about "let's kill all the lawyers." Scratch that. In this era, AI finding that post would result in the student getting a college scholarship and an immediate job offer from law enforcement.
  16. "Life like hair and beard." Shit, half of the Surly posters would KILL for that. Also, reminds me of the sex toy etc. catalog we got at our house in college. Someone had ordered a blow up sex doll as a party prop (yes, we were degenerates). Once you place such an order, you get on the mailing list, catalogs show up. We get one, and paging through it, get to the section on artificial vaginas/pocket pussy devices. And one of them has a graphic on the ad that looks like this.... Except instead of "new and improved," it says "NOW FEATURING REAL HAIR!" First....dear lord, the 80s were a dark time in so many ways. Second...I couldn't stop laughing at the idea of some board meeting of the Acme Sex Toy company, where they were gathered around the board table, and a guy was griping "sales of our pocket vaginas are flat. We just aren't moving product, there's no enthusiasm or buzz for it." Then Jenkins, the new marketing guy, pops up in his chair -- "I'VE GOT IT. Hear me out, fellas....two words....'REAL. HAIR.'" Long pause, then the chairman smiles -- "Jenkins, you're a GENIUS!"
  17. Sure, if we hold an actual election, and it's not called off because of some "emergency." Every single thing I can do in defiance of the regime, I will. But I have no illusions that my vote will be counted, that it will matter in the big picture, etc. There are 100 different plays to make elections not happen/be irrelevant. And the GQP is running every one of those plays simultaneously.
  18. There won't be any "running" in the traditional sense. Because there won't be an election in the traditional sense. Those days are gone. The Republic is gone. Get used to it.
  19. It took me a minute to figure out WTF people were talking about, but apparently, last week a couple of rando super-lefties criticized an American Eagle ad with Sydney Sweeney in it (for making a "jeans/genes" pun). There was no mainstream pushback, anything like that. But the MAGAsphere definitely got the memo to blow it all up and make an issue out of it. It's a nothing. Unlike Sydney's curves, which are definitely a something.
  20. Dude....ALWAYS posrep for a "Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" reference. Just a fantastic piece of writing.
  21. ...and the only way to do that is to go full Reek supplication obsequious orange knob-gobbling. It's just so fucking humiliating. After telling these people "this is what you need to do to win/keep this office," the next thing to do is ask "so, do you have ANY dignity or self-respect?" And the answer, for almost all of these folks, is "nope. Not even a fucking molecule."
  22. Saw one of his ads on tv during the evening news. Was genuinely surprised it didn’t include the phrase “he sucks Trump’s dick and gargles the gravy,” because that was 100% the message of the entire ad. Nevermind all the other issues with that…how humiliating that must be. To be so over-the-top obsequious to a man you’re smart enough to know is a moronic loathsome amoral toad…Jesus. There is no bottom for these people. And importantly, no dignity or self-respect. To cuck yourself so absolutely, how pathetic.
  23. Bozo's post was brought to you by the letters B and C, and the number 9.
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